Sluggish Spell Check in Pages

I tried to do a full-document spell check in Pages (300-page doc), but it was s-o-o-o-o-o sluggish that I copied the whole document into AppleWorks and did the spell check there in a fraction of the time. (I prefer not to use the spellcheck-as-you type feature.) Any thoughts?
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Just answered my own question: When I get out of layout mode, the spell-check moves at a normal (quick) rate.

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